Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...influential role of modeling processes in personality development is further revealed by studies demonstrating that children adopt, through observation of behavior exemplified by adults and peers, relatively complex attributes including standards of achievement and self-evaluation, patterns of emotional responsivity, syntatic styles, moral judgmental orientations, and patterns of self-gratification...
...must adopt a new "double standard" of discrimination in favor of poor nations if it is to aid, rather than plunder, underdeveloped countries, Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal said last night...
...Secretary Frederick L. Deming, a key member of L.B.J.'s economic team, to call the proposal "the height of irresponsibility." By the same token, supporters of the Johnson Administration's free-trade policies have been concerned about intimations by Nixon's aides that the U.S. might adopt a more protectionist attitude toward some imported goods, including Japanese textiles and Canadian auto parts. Nonetheless, European businessmen and moneymen, while also worried about the possibility of restrictive trade measures, express confidence that...
Foes of the Viet Nam war bitterly remember the 1964 election in which many voted for Johnson because he promised peace, even though they had reservations about him in other respects. As they see it, Johnson went on to adopt Barry Goldwater's war policies. This time, they see no significant differences between the candidates on Viet Nam. To register a moral protest, many war dissenters plan to boycott the polls entirely on the theory that a huge nonvote will somehow shock the new Ad ministration, or at least free dissenters from complicity in electing Nixon or Humphrey, both...
...Republican position also capitalizes on voters' vague suspicion that McNamara, who clearly had responsibility for nuclear planning, too often disregarded the advice his Joint Chiefs gave him. A Republican Secretary of Defense would probably be forced to adopt the same management techniques McNamara used to keep the Pentagon under control, but Nixon's rhetoric reassures uneasy voters...